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What is Body in Mind about?

BodyinMind was developed by Professor Lorimer Moseley and Digital Publishing Consultant Heidi Allen, as a method to promote better understanding of the clinical pain sciences. Lorimer is constantly gobsmacked by the fearful and wonderful complexity of the human and excited by the regular scientific discoveries that tell us more about us. An avid story-teller, Lorimer started ‘bringing the science to the people’ over a decade ago and teamed up with Dr David Butler to produce the rather special book Explain Pain. Lorimer was nonetheless frustrated at how little attention seems to be given by scientists to getting their work out to the wider public in a manner that is easier to understand than reading the article. Heidi’s unique and substantial skill set presented an excellent opportunity to do exactly that, so in 2009, BodyinMind.org was formed.

We have grown to be the most significant presence in the clinical pain sciences in the web/social media space. In 2014, we appointed esteemed early and mid-career pain scientists as Section Editors to help us cope with the massive literature, and shortly thereafter we appointed junior associate editors – PhD students and seasoned bloggers – to work with primary authors to get their message into a form that can be easily digested by people outside of the ‘hood. We have now provided over 600 blog posts, (from over 200 authors in 22 countries) mainly focussed on discussing recent evidence-based pain research. On a monthly basis we currently have over 25,000 visitors (20,000 unique) from over 140 countries and nearly 2,000 subscribers.

We have been cited in grant applications in at least four countries and we have the web/social media KLOUT equivalent to a large University. BodyinMind.org is just one initiative by which Lorimer and his team and collaborators are trying to promote widespread understanding of modern pain sciences. You can see his other outreach activities, including Art Exhibitions, Public lectures and Mass Bike Rides, here.

Here is our vision: To provide a credible and reliable channel through which clinical pain scientists can bring their scientific discoveries straight into the real world. We reckon that the communication bit of science is the bit that often drags the chain of knowledge development and transfer. We want to communicate our science better. We want to side-step, or perhaps leap-frog, the arduous journey that new discoveries make before they have the opportunity to influence the real world. We want people to share in our fascination with the fearful and wonderful complexity of the human; we want people to understand the scientific discoveries as they occur, not 20 years later, to grasp their significance and potential relevance to everyday life, but to also become astute sifters of the wheat from the chaff. We want to be a reliable go-to web space for the latest developments in the science of pain.

BodyinMind.org is committed to what Professor Moseley’s research group has defined as their trademarks – the characteristics by which they wish to be known: Collaboration, Communication, Integrity, Innovation and Excellence.

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Do you have back pain? We need you!

We are looking for people who have back pain that has persisted for more than 3 months.
Our study in Adelaide is investigating the relationship between chronic back pain and poor sleep, and the contributions of general mood and beliefs about pain.

We are asking that you complete a questionnaire about your general health, pain and sleep characteristics. You will also be asked to wear a wristwatch type device that records your activity levels for one week while also maintaining a pain and sleep diary. If you choose to participate, you will be given a report on your sleep quality. This research has been approved by the UniSA Ethics Committee Ref. 0000033839 “Chronic Back Pain and Sleep study”.

If you are interested, please contact Danny on 8302 1432 or email danny.camfferman@unisa.edu.au.

Please take our survey

The Body in Mind Research Group at the University of South Australia invites you to be part of an investigation on hand postures and pain.

We are interested in the things that affect how we experience pain. A better understanding of this will help us to make sense of acute and chronic pain.

If you are 18 years or older and have hand pain, hand arthritis or you are pain free we invite you to participate in our short survey here.

Participants needed – Adelaide

Do you live in Adelaide? Are you female between 25 and 70 and have good hearing? Do you have fibromyalgia or would you like to help someone who has by being a participant in a very interesting and painless study we are conducting at the University of South Australia.

The study examines sensory processing in people with fibromyalgia and those without by recording your eye blink responses to some sounds. You also need to complete several questionnaires that ask about your health and well-being so we need up to 2 hours of your time.

Compensation of $20 per hour up to a maximum of 2 hours is offered. If you are interested, please contact Carolyn.berryman@unisa.edu.au.

Healthy volunteers needed

We are investigating the effects of a (non-painful) tendon vibration illusion in the way you feel your body. This will involve 1 session lasting approximately 1.5 hours and you will be reimbursed $20 for your time.

If you live in Adelaide and are healthy and are right handed with no pain in your hands and arms please contact: Valeria Bellan or
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Everyone experiences some degree of involuntary motion when trying to keep their hand still. Known as physiological tremor, the underlying mechanisms have been debated for over a century. Two explanations, neural and mechanical, are generally offered. The neural theory suggests that involuntary movements directly reflect oscillations in the control signal sent to arm muscles (McAuley […]

Over 15 000 times every day we draw air into the lungs by expansion of the chest wall and abdomen; we breathe. This movement occurs by activation of inspiratory muscles from electrical signals from the brain to the respiratory motoneurones in the spinal cord. There are many inspiratory muscles that can expand the chest wall and […]

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All blog posts should be attributed to their author, not to BodyInMind. That is, BodyInMind wants authors to say what they really think, not what they think BodyInMind thinks they should think. Think about that!

We aim to facilitate and disseminate good clinical science research. We love comments that engage with the research and are constructive and respectful. No self-promotion of your particular therapy please (these comments get filed in the recycling bin).
We do not prescribe treatments.